Explore beyond the farm gate at Tatton Park

Visitors to the award winning Tatton Park estate will be given the opportunity to find out how their food is grown when Cheshire arable farmer, Richard Reeves, opens the gate to his fields on Sunday 22 June.

Richard's Tattondale Farm is situated within the scenic 2,000 acre park. He grows a variety of crops including wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape.

His oats are used by Mornflake Oats in Crewe for breakfast cereals, his wheat is sent to the new Cargill Plant in Manchester to be used in the food industry or to flour millers to be used for bread.

"People have generally become out of touch with where their food is grown," explained Richard who is also the NFU's North West Combinable Crops Board Chairman.

"This event is an attempt to explain the link between food and farming using my own farm as an example. How many people in Cheshire realise that the breakfast they eat before heading out to work is produced here in the county on farms just like mine?"

Visitors on the day can enjoy a tractor ride around the fields to see the crops growing whilst learning, from Richard, about their end uses.

Although the farm event is free, normal admission charges to Tatton Park still apply. The fun will start at noon and directions will be given on entrance to the park.